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    Ethnography of fertility and birth / edited by Carol P. MacCormack. --

    • Title:Ethnography of fertility and birth / edited by Carol P. MacCormack. --
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:MacCormack, Carol P.
    • Published/Created:London ; New York : Academic Press, 1982.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Fertility, Human.
      Traditional medicine.
      Childbirth--Social aspects.
    • Description:x, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographies and index.
    • ISBN:0124635504
    • Contents:Biological, cultural, and social adaptation in human fertility and birth / C.P. MacCormack
      Sexual power and fertility in Sri Lanka / D.B. McGilvray
      Enga birth, maturation, and survival B. Gray
      Health, fertility, and birth in Moyamba District, Sierra Leone / C.P. MacCormack
      Interpretations of infertility / V. Ebin
      Folk medicine and fertility / U. Maclean
      The social context of birth / S. Kitzinger
      Childbirth and change / S. Cosminsky
      Pregnancy and birth rites of passage for two groups of women in Britain / H. Homans
      Childbirth in a scientific and industrial society /A.D. Jones and C. Dougherty.
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